Photograph
Lambert Weston & Son
Category
Photographs
Date
1870
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
91 mm (H)55 mm (W)
Place of origin
Dover
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889241.13
Summary
Studio photograph of a group of four women, possibly Dickinson sisters, all wearing coats and hats in a garden with building and external staircase with trellis behind, a beech hedge beyond. Mary Dickinson sits on the left on a bench holding an unfurled umbrella, another woman beside her and two women behind. A red line is drawn around photograph on yellow mount. Contained in a small brown leather album with single brass clasp engraved Octr. 3rd./1871.
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953. This album and photographs belonged to the Dickinson family; Mary Dickinson, 1853-1921, marrying the Hon. Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, later 6th Viscount Clifden, 1844-1921.
Marks and inscriptions
(printed on reverse) PATRONIZED BY HER MAJESTY/bird over oval/PHOTOGRAPHED/from Life by/Lambert Weston and Son,/Waterloo Crescent, DOVER./Sandgate Road, FOLKESTONE./AND H.R.H.THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE
Makers and roles
Lambert Weston & Son, photographer